<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Tidepool Combers</title><link>https://tidepoolcombers.com/</link><description>Calm-sea mornings on the Maresme and Garraf shores: anemones, urchins, winter drift and sea glass, looked at closely and left where they were found.</description><language>en</language><item><title>Sea glass on granite and limestone: frosting, colours and what stays</title><link>https://tidepoolcombers.com/journal/sea-glass-on-granite-and-limestone/</link><guid>https://tidepoolcombers.com/journal/sea-glass-on-granite-and-limestone/</guid><description>Why sea glass looks different on the Maresme sand and in the Garraf coves, what the colours tell you, how long frosting takes, and the rules I keep about taking it home.</description><pubDate>Sat, 06 Jun 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>After the east wind: what a winter storm leaves along the strandline</title><link>https://tidepoolcombers.com/journal/after-the-east-wind-winter-drift/</link><guid>https://tidepoolcombers.com/journal/after-the-east-wind-winter-drift/</guid><description>Walking the Maresme and Garraf the morning after an easterly storm: seagrass banks, fibre balls, cuttlebones, by-the-wind sailors, and the rubbish that arrives with them.</description><pubDate>Sat, 24 Jan 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Anemones and urchins, and learning to look without lifting a stone</title><link>https://tidepoolcombers.com/journal/anemones-and-urchins-without-lifting-a-stone/</link><guid>https://tidepoolcombers.com/journal/anemones-and-urchins-without-lifting-a-stone/</guid><description>Telling the common anemones and the two urchins of the Catalan shallows apart by eye, and the habits that let me watch a pool for half an hour without disturbing it.</description><pubDate>Sat, 05 Jul 2025 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Reading a sea with almost no tide: when the pools show themselves</title><link>https://tidepoolcombers.com/journal/reading-a-sea-with-almost-no-tide/</link><guid>https://tidepoolcombers.com/journal/reading-a-sea-with-almost-no-tide/</guid><description>Why the moon matters less than the barometer on this coast, how wind and pressure lower the water by a hand's width, and how I choose which mornings to go out.</description><pubDate>Sat, 15 Mar 2025 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item></channel></rss>